Vifm as default filemanager using xargs

Question

Hi
I'm having an issue using vifm as default, with vifm setted as default

On ~/.config/mimeapps.list:

inode/direcory=vifm.desktop
inode/mount/point=vifm.desktop

I have this script for open files & folders:

find ~ | fzf | xargs -r -0 xdg-open

It doesn't work opening folders vifm
If I write it like this

xdg-open $(find ~ | fzf | xargs -r -0)

It works, but the variable -0 of xargs doesn't , so the script is unusable, because it doesn't works with files and folders with spacing in their names.

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance

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Answer 1

Hi,

I think this happens because xargs doesn't let xdg-open detect that terminal is open. If you're openning a single directory, adding quotes should be enough to fix escaping issue:

xdg-open "$(find ~ | fzf)"

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I solved by adding the -o variable to xargs

find ~ | fzf | xargs -r -0 -o xdg-open

Now I have another problem.
If I use rofi or dmenu, the script works only as root user

find ~ | rofi -dmenu -i | xargs -r -0 xdg-open

Or

xdg-open "$(find ~ | rofi -dmenu -i)"

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Is there an error message? Does dmenu/rofi work but Vifm isn't run?

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With sudo rights, it opens vifm

As normal user, it opens Firefox instead (dunno why)

Running the bash script in a terminal work
cd ~/.bin
./script.sh

Running the script with a keybind assigned doesn't work
Using a keybind didn't give any output, o course

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See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/590093, xdg-open doesn't start a terminal (bug). You might have to copy vifm.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications and edit it as a workaround.

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Hi
I fixed the issue as you suggested (it's pretty much a workaround)

Another question

Since running the script as root worked, can changing the owner of /usr/share/applications folder can solve the issue as well in your opinion?

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Hi
Another solution
Is to not using xdg-open

I tried handle instead, it works better and it recognize terminal application in the right way

handlr open $(find ~ | rofi -dmenu -i |)

https://github.com/chmln/handlr

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Since running the script as root worked, can changing the owner of /usr/share/applications folder can solve the issue as well in your opinion?

I don't think it's directory permissions issues. Not sure why running as root changes anything.